Toy smoke-gun.



J. MGINTYRE.

TOY SMOKE GUN.

APPLxcATIoN FILED MAY 4,1914.

Patented Dec. 8, 1914.

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JOHN MOINTYRE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TOY SMOKE-GUN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1914.

Application filed May 4, 1914. serial No. 836,149.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MGINTYRE, citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Smoke-Guns; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to toys or novelties, and more particularly to a device having the general appearance of a pistol and designed for emitting smoke from its mouth.

One object of my invention is to provide a simple and cheaply constructed apparatus of the class described in which the simple manipulation of the handle member of the appliance will successively fill the barrel of the latter with smoke and forcibly eject the said smoke from the mouth of the barrel.

Other objects are to provide simple means for supporting a cigarette or cigar in operative position for supplying the smoke to the barrel, to provide simple means for conining the suction of the appliance during one stage of its operation to the unlighted end of the cigarette; and to provide snnple means for ejecting the remnant of the cigarettewhen the latterl has been partially consumed.

Further objects are to equip the barrel with a chamber for housing a cigarette or other smoke-producing element, and to 'so dispose the connection `between the said chamber` and the barrel that smoke when drawn into the barrel from the chamber and thereafter ejected from the barrel will be given a vortex motion so as to produce smoke rings.

Still another object is to equip the handle of the appliance with a simple and cheap bellows construction which may be easily operated by the hand grasping the handle.

While the appliance of my invention may be used with smoke-producing elements of various types, such as ordinary size cigars, I have shownit as equipped for use with cigarettes in the accompanying drawings, in whichy Figure l is a View, partially in section, of

a toy smoke gun embodying my invention. F ig. 2 is `a view of the same, partially in section, along the line 9,*2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the gun of F .l along the line 3-3.

ln the embodiment of the drawings, my toy gun or smoke ejector' comprises a substantially cylindrical barrel l connected at one end by a tubular extension 9 to a handle member having side portions 3 and 4 housed by a covering of cloth or other llexible material 5, which covering extends over the entire exposed portions of the handle so as to cooperate with the extension Q in forming a closure for that end of the barrel. One of the side pieces 3 is preferalzly rigid with respect to the tip 2 and the barrel l, while the other side -Ll is hinged with respect to the said rigid members by a leather flap or hinge 6. Interposed between the latercrally opposed handle-shapcd side plates 3 and 1l is a comj'iression spring 7, which normally keeps the said sides El and 4l substantially parallel as shown in Fig. 2, the extent of motion of the said spring being limited by the length of the edge portions of the covering 5 extending transversely of the said sides. It will be evident that the handle member of my appliance when thus equipped forms a bellows chamber and is adapted to be partially compressed by means of the handle grasl'ging the said member, and that the said chamber together with the barrel form a housing open at one end. and closed at the other.

Mounted within the barrel l adjacent to the rear end thereof is a conical inner tube 8 having its smaller end directed toward the forward or open end of the barrel l, the said forward end of the inner tube being preferably diagonally disposed with refer ence to the axis of the barrel. Secured to the said forward end of the inner tube S by a flexible hinge 9 is a i'lap 10 which is adapted to drop by gravity across the said opening of the inner tube, the gravity closure heilig made more effective by a weight, such as a drop of solder 1l, secured to the said flap. Mounted upon the exterior of the barrel l and preferably below the same is a tube or duct 1.2 leading into the bellows chamber to the rear of the said inner tube 8, the entrance from the said duct to the said chamber being normally closed by a ball 13 which is held by gravity in its closure position and which is limited in its movement awav from the mouth of the said duct by wire hoops 14. The forward end of the said duct 12, is preferably somewhat flared, and of such size as snugly to house the mouth end of an ordinary cigarette 15, which cigarette is readily guided into its said position by a guide formation 16 secured to the lower edge of the barrel 1.

lt will be evident from the above description that the valves 10 and 13 normally disconnect the interior of the barrel 1 from the chamber comprising the inner tube 8, the rear end portion of the barrel 1 and the hollow and partially compressible handle member of the appliance. It will also be evident that the disposition of the valve ball 13will readily permit it to its normal closure position when a partial vacuum is created in the handle member of the appliance, through the duct 12. Consequently, if the handle or bellows member has been compressed to reduce the amount of air within the same and yis then permitted to be eX- panded by the action of the spring 7 the resulting partial vacuum within the said chamber will cause the flap 10 to be drawn all the more tightly against the forward in-V clined end of the inner tube 8, while the eX- cess of pressure of the outer air will force air and smokethroughV the pores of the cigarette 15 and the duct 12 with such pressure as to dislodge the valve ball 13 and to cause the said smoke and air to be admitted to the bellows chamber of the appliance. Then upon again compressing the handle member, the valve ball 13 will close the entrance to the duct 12 while the force of the compresed air within the chamber will raise the iap 10 uponl its hinge, thereby permitting a part of the contents of the bellows cham'- ber to be discharged into the barrel 1. By

making the said compression action of `the handle member comparatively rapid or sudden, the smoke therefrom will be ejected with such force and violence through the inner tube S as to cause the friction of the smoke against the inner wall of the barrel 1 to impart a vortex motion to the smoke thereof by forming the latter into smoke rings.

It will be evident that the compression spring 7 will readily return the compressed bellows member to its normal or distended position, so that the user of my appliance only needs alternately to compress the handle thereof and to relax the pressure. It will also be evident that the valves 13 and 10 controlling the entrance and exit pasbe raised out ofv and causes air to be drawn in function automatically, thereby causing lnately to draw 'smoke from the smoke-producing element into the handle chamber and to discharge the same from the mouth of the barrel.

YWhile l have illustrated the barrel as substantially cylindrical I do not wish to be limited to this or other details of the smoke ejector herein disclosed, as the same might be varied in many ways without departing from thespirit ofmy invention. For eX- ample, the barrel might be varied in shape as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, it being evident that such variations may enable the appliance to be adapted to vary the size and formation of the smoke rings produced by the same. In any case, the ejecting of smoke from an appliance of this general shape will be mystifying to many, thereby enabling the appliance to afford considerable amusement as well as instruction.

I `claim as my invention:

1. A smoke ejector comprising a barrel open at one end, manually operable bellows connected to the other end thereof, and a chamber connected to the barrel near its last-named end and adapted partially to house a smoke-producing element. I

2. A smoke gun comprising a barrel, a compressible bellows-chamber attached to one end thereof, a duct leading to the said chamber and snugly housing a portion of a cigarette, and means operated respectively by the compression and distention of the bellows-chamber for alternately connecting the said chamber with the said duct and barrel respectively.

3. A smoke gun comprising a barrel, a tube housed thereby near the rear end thereof, bellows connected'to'the said tube, a valve mounted upon the forward end of the said tube and controlling the connection between the said tube and the forward end of the barrel, a duct leading to the interior of the bellows and equipped at its outer end with means for supporting a smoke-producing element, and a second valve controlling the connection between the said duct and bellows.

4. A smoke gun comprising a barrel open at one end, manually operable bellowsconnected to the other end thereof, and a duct connected to the said bellows and adapted partially to house a smoke-producing element, the said barrel being of such length between its open end and the connection to the said chamber as to impart a vortex motion to the smoke when ejecting the same, thereby producing smoke rings. Y

5. A smoke gun including manually operable bellows equipped with entrance and exit passages, a valve controlling each of said passages, n, smoke-producing element name in presence of tWo subscribing witssocilated with the entrance passage, and nesses.

irre connected With the exit .assu e anc n 1 adapted to direct the dischargle of gsmoke JOHN MblNlYhk 5 emitted from the bellows through the said Witnesses:

exit passage. ALBERT SCHEIBLE,

In testimony whereof I have signed my M. M. BOYLE.

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